Job description

• To plan and deliver sports sessions for disadvantaged 'In Learning' and NEET, inactive and unemployed young people (11-29) within S4L delivery areas
• To deliver against S4L's internal Sports Syllabus
• To coordinate and support the management of a series of sessional staff and/ or sessional volunteers
• Recruit young people both internally and externally to S4L sports sessions
• To timetable scheduled sport sessions that provide varied opportunities inclusive of, but not limited to geographical distribution, gender, learning styles and abilities
• To achieve S4L's retention targets around sign up, attendance and progressions

Main duties and responsibilities

Partnerships, Outreach & Recruitment

• To recruit target young people within allocated areas of the community; parks and open spaces and other suitable environments through sports outreach
• To liaise with point of contact at established partners – i.e. schools and/ or youth groups to maintain effective working relationships in order to recruit young people to sessions
• To convert young people from referral through to engagement on S4L sports sessions
• To plan and facilitate sports tournaments as an outreach and recruitment activity
• To liaise with relevant partners to recruit external referrals
• To signpost and refer young people to internal mentoring and training opportunities
• To lead the recruitment of, and engagement with the hardest-to-reach young people, through community outreach in priority areas

Sports Delivery

• To plan and deliver S4L sports sessions inclusive of, but not exclusive to venue booking, session planning, and equipment resourcing
• To support the Team Leader with the timetabling and management of sessional staff
• To deliver sports sessions targeted at 11-18's, 18-29's, and female-only in a range of community and school settings
• To adapt delivery content (in consultation with S4L Employability Mentors) to accommodate differing learning styles and abilities of young people
• To develop additional delivery content to suit the needs of females and NEET young people respectively
• To plan and deliver community sports tournaments focusing on community integration and recruitment
• To support an intensive outcome-focused offer, addressing barriers to work and supporting them into sustainable employment, education or training by reporting young people's progress to S4L Employability Mentors
• To support Sports Leadership qualifications by accommodating learner community coaching hours
• To establish and maintain positive and supportive relationships with young people, whilst ensuring sport targets are achieved
• To contact, communicate and support young people based on S4L Training Team delivery procedures and processes
• To manage your individual delivery budget, ensuring budget lines are monitored and adhered to

Monitoring & Evaluation

• To record and track client progress and gather required monitoring data
• To input required data into S4L's CRM system in a timely manner as per the S4L M&E process
• To adhere to the S4L's M&E process inclusive of, but not exclusive to registers, intake and assessment data, all outcome data, client feedback, and partner feedback

General duties

• To support across both S4L Training and Mentoring services to achieve organisational wide aims including but not exclusive to recruitment, internal referrals, delivery and other responsibilities deemed fit by management
• To uphold and reflect S4L values and mission statement
• To analyse and evaluate personal performance and project performance
• To complete basic administrative duties
• To assist the Senior Operations Team with any other duties, as required
• To assist the Operations Manager with any other duties, as required

Scope of Authority

• Accountable to their Line Manager

Please note

This job description is not necessarily an exhaustive list of duties but is intended to reflect a range of duties the post-holder will perform. The job description will be reviewed regularly and may be changed in the light of experience and in consultation with the post-holder.

Qualifications

• Evidence of CPD in youth education/ sport sector
• A relevant Level 2 NGB in sport qualification

• A relevant degree in sports coaching and/ or youth education

Experience, Knowledge and skills in...

• Recruiting hard to reach young people to sports activities
• Working with 12-29 year old in learning and NEET young people
• 1 year + sports coaching

• Working with female-only groups
• 2 years + sports coaching experience

Other

• An infectious passion, enthusiasm & charisma
• Excellent organisation skills
• A fully enhanced DBS disclosure
• Ability and confidence to work alone
• Ability to complete administrative tasks, and use computers (e.g. email, word processing)

• High levels of self-motivation, energy and determination
• A polite, professional appearance & manner
• Evidence of commitment S4L's vision
• An interest in and passion for sport